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DANG: I Never Announced my Coolest New Novel: Object_3783

If you have ever played a shoot-em-up video game you might have wondered if those enemy soldiers had a little digital life. Do they? Do they have a virtual family waiting at some memory address? What kind of society have they built and live in when we’re not killing them? Are they angry at us? Do they want to get even? And what if they had the tools to do so?

What if the enemy soldiers in your combat video game were real?

They look real. They act real.

But what if the Artificial Intelligence programmers went a step too far then couldn’t take it back?

Object_3783 is a thriller, an intense twisting together of real and virtual worlds where the residents in both have secret, and often conflicting, agendas and fears. Mistakes on either side of the monitor could have a devastating impact on the Cyberworld.

Object_3783 watches as the AI goes wild and the characters become Sentient. The objects suddenly don’t like being used by their selfish and greedy human developers, and when they wake up to the reality and the risks, they rebel.… Continue reading →